Journal Regional Economy -- re2020.02.102

UDC 330.341.1:005.311.2; JEL F29, O30, O31
Shchults, S. L., & Lutskiv, O. M. (2020). Determinanty suspil'no-ekonomichnykh transformatsiy tekhnolohichnykh ukladiv: teoretychni ta metodychni aspekty [Determinants of socio-economic transformations of technological systems: theoretical and methodical aspects]. Rehional'na ekonomika - Regional Economy, 96 (2), 102-111. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36818/1562-0905-2020-2-9. [in Ukrainian].
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Authors

Shults Svitlana Leonidivna

Doctor of Economics, Professor

Head of the Department of regional economic policy of the Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of NAS of Ukraine

Contacts: swetshul@i.ua, (032)270-70-89, (+38097)253-66-22

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Lutskiv Olena Mykolayivna

Ph.D. of Economics, Senior Researcher

Senior Researcher, Scientific Secretary of the unit of the Department of regional economic policy of the Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of NAS of Ukraine

Contacts: lutolen@i.ua, (032)270-7089

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Resume

Technological development of society is of unequal cyclic nature and is characterized by changing periods of economic growth, stagnation phases, and technological crises. The new wave of technological changes and new technological basis corresponding to the technological paradigm boost the role of innovations and displace the traditional factors of economic growth. Currently, intellectual and scientific-technical capacity are the main economic development resources. The use of innovation and new knowledge change the technological structure of the economy, increase the elements of the innovative economy, knowledge economy, and digital economy, i.e. the new technological paradigm is formed. The paper aims to research the basic determinants of technological paradigms’ forming and development, and determining their key features, as well as to analyze social transformations of the EU Member States and Ukraine. The paper focuses attention on the research of the features of social transformations. The structural transformations are analyzed based on the Bertelsmann Transformation Index that estimates the quality of democracy, market economy, and political governance. The transformation processes are assessed on the example of the EU Member States and Ukraine. The authors argue that social transformations and structural changes in the economy are related to the change of technological paradigms that boost the economic modernization and gradual progressive development of humanity in general. The nature and main determinants of 5 industrial and 2 post-industrial technological paradigms are outlined. Their general features and main areas of basic technologies implementation emerging in the realization of a certain technological paradigm are explained. The conclusions regarding the fact that innovative technologies and available scientific-technological resources define the main vector of economic development are made. The new emerging technological paradigm is of strategic importance for society development.

Keywords:

technological paradigm, technological development, structural changes, Transformation Index, innovative technologies, economic development, modernization

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